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Downdetector seems like a great place to advertise. You have a bunch of people who were forced to abandon the provider of whatever type of service that your com
by birdyrooster 6y ago
Downdetector seems like a great place to advertise. You have a bunch of people who were forced to abandon the provider of whatever type of service that your company may offer. What a great opportunity to show customers your competing product.
- augusto-moura 6y agoMaybe for other types of service yes, I find difficult to plug a alternative to YouTube, other type of streaming services maybe? Netlfix etc
- Forge36 6y agoVudu, Spotify, Pandora. I think there's a wide enough overlap that plenty of people could say "give us a try" when YouTube goes down.
- augusto-moura 6y agoYeah... But you still don't get the content from the youtube creators that you follow, usually I go for youtube just to see a few selected channels
- mr_toad 6y agoVimeo is my first stop when I can’t get it on YouTube.
- augusto-moura 6y agoThe problem is that most of my subscribed channels are not in Vimeo, so I lose a lot of meaningful content
- hetspookjee 6y agoI wonder why syndication is not more of a thing. Surely there must be a simple tool to upload your video to multiple platforms at once?
- macintux 6y agoWould you risk losing ad revenue if you posted to content providers who pay less? (I have no idea whether YT revenue is meaningful for smaller players, to be clear; I suspect not, but I also suspect it's worse elsewhere.)
- boogies 6y agoLBRY and Bitchute can automatically mirror your YT channel, and IIUC the former can also automatically upload videos to YouTube, maybe even on a customizable delay. Some decent sized channels like minutephysics use LBRY, but even though anecdotal accounts report much higher revenue per view and no decrease in YouTube exposure, it’s still certainly a uphill battle to compete with a de facto monopoly that can afford to hemorrhage money and just get more from a massive gatekeeper of the web.
- Nextgrid 6y agoI'm pretty sure Vimeo is paid, so it's sadly a non-starter for many creators.
- Austin_Conlon 6y agoIt's niche but I like that a lot of filmmakers seem to be on there. Often I can find the individual people behind well-produced Apple ads for example.
- sundvor 6y agoYouTube Music user here. Fired up Windows Media Player for the first time in ages, and told it to scan my old folder of ripped CDs.
- whereistimbo 6y agoIf you're Windows user maybe try lightweight option like foobar2000?
- wongarsu 6y agoYouTube is the one-stop-shop of internet videos. Any specific niche has a competitor, but none of them seriously competes with the whole of YouTube. I noticed the outage because I wanted to watch a stream, so I might go to Twitch now. Often I use Youtube for music, where Spotify is a solid alternative with many of the same creators. If I want to see that video from reddit of people throwing burning flares at a balcony I can probably find it on LiveLeak. Many of the educational channels I've subscribed are also on Nebula, but I could also watch a documentary on Netflix or Disney+ instead.
- lobster45 6y agoMy daughter could not do her homework assignment, her Google classroom is linked to YouTube. Thank goodness I was able to find the video she was looking for on Dailymotion. I haven’t been to the site in over 10 years
- TrinaryWorksToo 6y agoLBRY?
- OJFord 6y ago'PeerTube: the federated video streaming service that's resilient to down time'
- CryoLogic 6y agohttps://anim8.io https://anim8.io for animation fans
- floatingatoll 6y agoWouldn't that create an incentive for third parties to block Downdetector, negating its value?
- blisterpeanuts 6y agoAt least one vlogger I follow posts duplicate content on Bitchute (which is up).
- myself248 6y agoWow, the front page of bitchute is 100% conspiracy. Is that... umm... what it's known for?
- ardy42 6y ago> Wow, the front page of bitchute is 100% conspiracy. Is that... umm... what it's known for? When your main differentiator is "free speech" and your competitors don't actually restrict the speech they carry that much, you're pretty much only going to get the dross that was cast off the other platforms and very little else.
- blisterpeanuts 6y agoI guess that there are a lot of fringe channels on Bitchute that are banned or restricted on Youtube or Facebook Video. But Youtube doesn't only ban conspiracists and hate speech. They also will restrict content that violates their community standards such as explicit instructions on slaughtering chickens on a farm, or how to field-dress a deer when hunting. Even the Rob the Ranger channel has had videos taken down for inappropriately explicit content, when showing lions mating for example. Youtube throws a wide net, and thus rather unfairly censors innocent content. Bitchute, peertube, etc. provide alternative ways to get that content online while you're waiting patiently for your appeal to go through. And yeah, there's some content that the monitors at Youtube consider objectionable and will never be allowed, and maybe should never be allowed -- snuff films, child porn, terrorism how-to training guides, stuff like that. But I think Bitchute also takes down such content.
- laverya 6y agoThe only time I've used it is for inrange.tv content that isn't allowed on YouTube - things like uncensored gun manufacturing or assembly instructions.